Haematopota crassicornis, the Black-horned Cleg is a species in the horse-fly family, Tabanidae.
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Pearl Cleage (December 7, 1948) (pronounced: “cleg”) is an African-American playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist.Spratling, Cassandra. "Pearl Cleage's Storied Life Cover Story." Detroit Free Press, Feb 21, 2010. ProQuest.
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Spider is the story of Dennis Cleg, a man who is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed people. Cleg has just been released from a mental institution and in his new abode starts piecing together or recreating in his memory an apparently fateful childhood event. He roams the nearby derelict urban area and the local canal, and starts to relive or visualise a period of his childhood in 1950s London with his mother and father. A shift takes place in the child's psyche when he witnesses his mother groping with his father in the garden and, subsequently, when he sees his mother in a silky night gown she wore for his father.
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In 1855, the British Government sent Clegg to Demerara in British Guiana to report on the sea walls there, and to superintend their restoration. He was author of a treatise on coal gas, 1850. Cleg died in Putney, Surrey, 25 July 1856 at age 42. He had a wife and young children.
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This is an outside view of the newest addition to the McKinley Building The School of Communication (SOC) at American University is accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The school offers five undergraduate majors: communication studies, journalism, public relations and strategic communication, and foreign language and communication media (jointly administered with the College of Arts and Sciences) along with a minor in communication. In addition, interdisciplinary degrees such as communications, law, economics and government (CLEG, which is housed in the School of Public Affairs), take classes within SOC. SOC offers four graduate programs in film and media arts, public communication, journalism and game design, and a post-graduate program in communication studies.
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Robert Hooke marvelled at the eyes of a "drone fly" in his Micrographia (1665), perhaps the earliest accurate depiction of a horsefly Apart from the common name "horse-flies", broad categories of biting, bloodsucking Tabanidae are known by a large number of common names. The word "Tabanus" was first recorded by Pliny the Younger and has survived as the generic name. In general, country-folk did not distinguish between the various biting insects that irritated their cattle and called them all "gad-flies", from the word "gad" meaning a spike. The most common name is "cleg[g]", "gleg" or "clag", which comes from Old Norse and may have originated from the Vikings.
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Spider, birth name Dennis Cleg, is a recent arrival from a psychiatric hospital to a halfway house in the East End of London—just a few streets away from the very house where he grew up, which was the scene of some barely visible but tremendous trauma which peeps out at the reader gradually from the fog of Spider's reminiscences. As the story opens, Spider has just taken up residence in the halfway house, under the stern eye of Mrs. Wilkinson, along with a handful of others he calls "dead souls". He takes daily walks to the River Thames, following the old canals and towpaths that run along the edge of his memories, under the shadow of the immense oil and gas tanks that dominate the industrial landscape.
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The son, as a grown man, seems to recreate in his memory the buildup to his father's murder of his mother by hitting her on the head with a spade with the passive support of a prostitute he is involved with, who then moves into the house and is presented as his mother. The young son then kills the mistress by gassing her in the kitchen, although the final shot appears to show his mother lying dead, so viewers are left to wonder whether she really was his mother and the prostitute-mistress was a delusion. After that memory he sneaks late one night to the landlady's room and appears ready to kill her, whom he sees alternatively as the mistress, his mother and the landlady, but backs away after she says, "What have you done, Mr. Cleg?" He is then taken back to the asylum.
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Most comprehensive is The Galloway Collection. Given the ephemerality of magazine publication it is impossible to give a complete list of all his serialised work or published short stories. Dulce Cor (1886) London, Kegan, Paul and Co. The Stickit Minister (1893) London T. Fisher Unwin The Raiders, (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin Mad Sir Uchtred of the Hills (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin The Lilac Sunbonnet (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin The PlayActress (1894) London, T. Fisher Unwin Men of the Moss Hags (1895) London, Isbister and Co. Bog Myrtle and Peat (1895) London, Bliss,Foster and Sands. A Galloway Herd (1895) New York, R.Fenno and Co. Cleg Kelly (1896) London, Methuen and Co. The Grey Man (1896) London, T. Fisher Unwin. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1896 Sweetheart Travellers (1896) London, Wells, Gardner, Darton and Co. Lads’ Love (1897) London, Bliss, Sands and Co. Lochinvar (1897) London: Methuen and Co. The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion (1897) London: Gardner,Darton and Co. New York: Frederick A. Stokes The Red Axe (1898) London: Smith, Elder and Co. New York: Harper & Bros.
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